(29 Jul 2024)
GERMANY CLIMATE CHANGE TREES
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Potsdam, Germany – 25 July 2024
1. Wide of Sanssouci Palace
2. Statue
3. Sanssouci Gardens
4. Tree with red ribbon, palace in background
5. Tree stump
6. Dead tree with cut branches
7. Setup shot of Sven Kerschek speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Sven Kerschek, former chief gardener, Sanssouci Park:
“Since 2017/18, we have noticed that the trees here have changed very, very radically and very quickly. They are sicker in appearance, they are dying more, they have thinner crowns. The shrubs are also suffering very, very badly from the drought.”
9. Burnt leaves
10. Kerschek pointing at map of park with sick trees marked in red
11. Dried tree branch
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Sven Kerschek, former chief gardener, Sanssouci Park:
“It would be too simple to say that it only has something to do with a lack of precipitation, it is much more complex. It’s about solar radiation, it’s about humidity. It’s, of course, about precipitation, but it’s also about groundwater levels, about storms. And all of this together means that, unfortunately, we have to face the fact that some of our trees are simply sick and dying in our garden today.”
13. Tree branch lying on ground
14. Tourists looking at “Re:Generation” exhibit
15. Sign, showing underground water levels since 1989
16. Setup shot of Katrin Schröder walking
17. Danger sign, part of “Re:Generation” exhibit
18. Katrin Schröder looking at one of the “Re:Generation” exhibit stations
19. SOUNDBITE (German) Katrin Schröder, curator of gardens at the foundation:
“The (climate) problem has arrived here. We see it every day. Maybe we haven’t realized it yet, but perhaps the exhibition will help point out that we have such problems here, that extreme examples of climate change are already visible, not just where people live in a river valley and have to experience a flood, but also in idyllic Sanssouci Park, which is actually located in the plains, and we have to deal with them.”
20. Tree stump
21. Fallen tree branch
22. Cut tree trunk
23. Tourists walking in park, trees with red ribbons in background
24. SOUNDBITE (German) Sven Kerschek, former chief gardener, Sanssouci Park:
“We are thinking about species that can replace (our) trees. But our greatest hope is that the trees will develop themselves here in the garden, that they will self-seed and that we will really try to continue working with the genetic material we have here in the garden so that this work of art, the garden, doesn’t change too much.”
25. Sanssouci Park garden
26. Sanssouci Park garden
27. Heron on tree
28. Woman walking with dog
29. Wide of Sanssouci Palace
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
The avenues, monuments and gardens in the park surrounding Sanssouci Palace, a sprawling green oasis in the heart of the German city of Potsdam and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, look as magnificent as ever.
But a closer look shows that all is not well with the park’s trees, which increasingly are struggling with the effects of climate change.
STORYLINE:
Among the signs are beech trees with thinning crowns, big branches that have crashed to the ground, and trunks with much of their bark peeled off.
This summer, an open-air exhibit aims to set out the problems and ideas for how they might be tackled.
“Since 2017/18, we have noticed that the trees here have changed very, very radically and very quickly," says Sven Kerschek, a former chief gardener for part of the park.
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